The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-23
Farm and Garden Notes,

Save dry road dust for the hen houses.
Never smoke in barnyard or barn, nor
allow others to do so.
After securing your crops see to mar
kcting them protitably.
In setting out raspberry plants, don't
bury their roots too deep.
Do not leave farming tools snd imple-
ments exposed to the weather.
Joseph Harris regards clover as the
great renovating crop of American agrl-
culture.
w. D. Philbrick says that potatoes and
roots of all kinds keep best in pits out of
doors.
Cut down all worthless fruit trees.
They furnish harboring places for num-
berless insects.
"To dispute the excellence of milk
made from good ensilage is to fly in the
face of facts" so says John Gould.
For potato culture the RuraI New
Yorker advises to manure the land in the
fall and plow it under in the spring.
Tube rose bulbs that have bloomed
once are never to be depended upon again
for good blooms, and are best thrown
away.
Kerosene is excellent for cleaning off
old hardened gummy oil that has accumu.
lated on mowers, scrapers and other farm
machines.
Onions that freeze and thaw out often
will rot. Keep them from freezing, or
freeze them and keep them in that con-
dition till spring.
Select seed corn carefully from the best
stalks, choosing the choicest ears, and
then hang them in perfectly dry place
where they cannot freeze.
To guard against poultry lice keep the
nests clean, oil the roosts, and sprinkle
insect powder on the bodies of the fowls
and dust it IN their nests.
The offer of a certain per cent. of the
net cash profits of the fair as premiums
is a new departure in the system of
awards at agricultural exhibitions.
According to Professor W. ]. Beal, it
is by skillful green manuring that the
shifting sands of Belgium have been
made the most fruitful fields of Europe.
Leather, as it slowly decomposes, gives
off fertilizing matter. Some people like
to bury old boots and shoes near grape
vines or trees where their valuable quail
ties are utilized.
During the summer a great deal of
rubbish collects in the garden, and per-
haps in the orchard. All this ought to
be raked up and burned and otherwise
disposed of. If left on the ground il
furnishes feeding for insects.
AS q rule, all summer pruning checks
growth, and by producing maturity Of
wood and fruit buds, induces fruitful.
ness. All winter and early spring prun.
ing favors growth, !. e., causes more
exuberant growth in the parts remain
ing.
The Massachusetts, Ploughman says the
best way to save liquid manure is to pro-
vide absorbents in the barn cellar. Ex-
cellent absorbents are dry meadow muck,
or dry sand or loan; these can be used IN
bedding. Sawdust is highly recon.
mended, but while it is q good absorbent
it is not valuable for its fertilizing quail.
ity. The liquid manure is considered as
one-half in fcrtilizing value to the manure
of the animal.
A lady who claims to have had twenty
years success offers this recipe in the
Ohio Farmer, for keeping eggs. Take
good fresh eggs and rub them over with
melted lard, thus closing the pores of the
shell. Then put layer of oats or bran
in box and q layer of eggs, setting
them on the small end and not allowing
them to touch each other, separating
them by oats or bran. In this way fill
the box and the eggs will keep fresh.
A poultry-raiser tells the Maine Far.
mer that when he cuts chickens wings
he gets some one to hold the bird; then
takes the wing and stretches it out, and
with q sharp knife commences near the
body, leaving three or four of the quill
feathers next the body without cutting,
and cuts all the rest except three or four
at the tip end. That will take the wind
out of their sails and prevent flying. The
feathers left at the tip of the wing en-
ables the hen to keep her eggs in place
if YOU let her sit. and when the wing is
shut up it does not disGgure her.